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ColinHowell (Offline)
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03-24-2011, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dogsbody70 View Post
um what do you mean we often says "seems. there seems to be misunderstandings. in other words there "Appears" to be some misunderstanding.
masaegu is referring to the fact that JamboP26's "corrected" sentence,
There seems to be some reasons for this.
itself contains an error. The original sentence was
There seem to be some reasons.
Adding "for this" was correct, but changing "seem" to "seems" was wrong, because that made the verb singular, even though the noun it refers to, "reasons", is plural. If JamboP26 had changed it to "There seems to be some reason for this", it would have been OK.

I also objected to JamboP26 "correcting" the American-style spelling "rumor" to the British-style spelling "rumour" when there was no obvious need for such a change, but I'm American , and that's a minor point.
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